7 News Spotlight | Fatal cosmetic surgery: the deadly downside of cheap overseas procedures | 7NEWS Spotlight @7newsSpotlight | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Evita Sarmonikas was a beautiful 29-year-old young woman from Queensland. But despite her stunning good looks, she felt insecure about her body. So she decided to have cosmetic surgery. Like thousands of other Aussies, she went overseas where it was a lot cheaper. But Evita had no idea her foreign doctor had an atrocious record of botched operations and suspicious deaths. Tragically, she would become his next victim. Denham Hitchcock joined Evita's sister to confront the doctor in Mexico. This story originally aired in 2016.

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